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Welcome to the Young Librarians Working Group Think Tank. All creative, enthusiastic, forward-thinking young librarians are invited to participate in the Working Group's efforts by providing feedback and comments on our projects, and making sure we're staying on track to a better ALA. Membership in the Think Tank is open to everyone.

We know you're all busy people, so we aren't asking for a big time commitment. Just tune in to our activities when you can and let us know what you think. Join our ALA Connect space (you're looking at it) and watch our blog for news and updates. Come and go as you like. Be as involved as you can, or just stop by occasionally.

Please click "Edit" and add your name and contact info if you plan to participate. Thanks, and welcome!

Our most conservative definition of young is under 35 (our most liberal is 40), so definitely! Like I've told other people, though, we'd want to hear your input even if you were 90. YLWG operates under the idea that making ALA a more navagable and responsive organization for everyone, not just young librarians.

Sorry, it was my statement that wasn't clear, not the charge of the working group that wasn't. We are expressly focused on making ALA more responsive to the needs of young librarians, but we're not about to turn down feedback from anyone, and we think that any suggestions or changes we are able to make will most likely be beneficial to all ALA members.

I would also like to point out that -- no matter our age -- we all see the sorts of issues and challenges that affect young librarians as they enter the field and ALA. Anyone who ever has been young, or works with young librarians, has valuable insights that we welcome in the Think Tank!

Just a heads up that someone changed the audience for this post in the "edit" screen so that it appeared in the ACRL, ACRL IS, and LLAMA groups, while also removing it from the YLWG one.

While I understand the impetus for this, it's kind of like posting the middle message of a discussion to a totally different mailing list, because the folks in those groups didn't have any context for it, and suddenly they started getting emails for a project they knew nothing about. So I removed those extra audiences and put the post back here in the original group.

If anyone has a question about how to use this feature, please feel free to contact me at jlevine [at] ala.org.

Thanks for doing that. I am not sure who did the change or why, but it has been confusing to a lot of folks. Even Jin Rettig got an invitation to join; additionally, some complaints from folks not understanding the context of this group. CAMILA